ARTIST: Caribou
TITLE: Start Breaking My Heart (Reissue)
LABEL: The Leaf Label/Domino
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 234 kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 1h 42min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-07-18
RIP DATE: 2006-08-13
Track List
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Disc 1/2
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1. Dundas, Ontario 4:23
2. People Eating Fruit 6:09
3. Mammals vs Reptiles 4:47
4. Brandon 5:22
5. Children Play Well Together 3:05
6. Lemon Yoghourt 2:24
7. James' Second Haircut 4:14
8. Schedules & Fares 5:13
9. Paul's Birthday 6:53
10. Happy Ending 2:58
Disc 2/2
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1. Victor And Carolyn 5:57
2. 218 Beverly 5:30
3. Evan Likes Driving 10:07
4. Anna And Nina 5:40
5. Dundas, Ontario (Remix) 5:05
6. Tits & Ass: The Great Canadian 4:49
Weekend
7. Webers 5:28
8. If Assholes Could Fly, This 4:48
Place Would Be An Airport
9. Air Doom 2:28
10. Ach Who 7:34
Release Notes:
http://www.caribou.fm
http://www.theleaflabel.com
http://www.dominorecordco.us
Once upon a time there was a young lad who went by the name of Manitoba. Along
the way, he encounted many adventures and people. One of them didn't like the
fact that he called himself Manitoba. Paperwork was exchanged, hours were billed
and Manitoba became Caribou, a phoenix reborn from the flames of possible
litigation. And like Caribou, his two early albums are born again... harder,
better, faster, stronger. The Start Breaking My Heart re-issue contains an
entire bonus disc of material. We're talking serious value here. Drink the milk
of human kindness that is this deluxe re-issue. It does a body good.
The second disc of 'Start Breaking My Heart' will include all the extra tracks
from the 'People Eating Fruit' EP and the 'Paul's Birthday' 12". It will also
include all three tracks from the infamous 'If Assholes Could Fly This Place
Would Be An Airport'.
It's the first time most of this material has been available on CD.
Dan Snaith's debut album, Start Breaking My Heart, is spliced with arcs of
rainbow melody, hopscotch percussion patterns, and playground children laughing.
Humanity and nature are strong threads through this album: beauty and mystery
are revealed in the mundane and ordinary. It's kind of a distillation of those
rare moments when you look around and feel a strange glow of contentment - some
friends called over unexpectedly, your room is tidy for once and not strewn with
leftover apple cores, banana skins and orange peel. And it was a nice day for
record shopping. Things could be worse, but they're not. For that you are truly
grateful.
Dan plays guitars and keyboards, preferring to record a melody straight up than
sample someone else's, combining these basic elements with computer trickery. It
gives the album an electronic/organic feel, warm but with a slightly uptight
twitch, like you know he's going to produce some really banging dancefloor track
one day. Not today, though.
While there's a lot going on - some extraordinary explosions of rapid fire laser
beats, out of which fairy dust nursery rhymes come dancing, Start Breaking My
Heart is so beautifully arranged - equal parts grace and dexterity - it manages
to both stimulate and soothe at the same time.